I don't know what radio station the author listens to but we get more than enough Pink Floyd, U2, R.E.M. and Elton John around here. And to say Black Sabbath has "remained relevant without ever leaving it's early 70's radio friendly fare". What does that even mean? And if you're going to bring up Black Sabbath, why not mention Deep Purple, or Led Zeppelin, or Metallica. I'm sure you could make all of those bands fit this ill-conceived and poorly executed sketch of an idea of an article.

I know that music threads sometimes devolve into animosity, when people with good taste in music debate the subtle distinctions between various bands and various styles. Ultimately, there is no way to resolve those debates, because good music will always appeal to people for different reasons. We may never be able to decide which band is "the best ever," but I think that we can at least all agree that every song by Radiohead sucks the corn kernels out of a dead donkey's ass and all of their fans are inbred simpletons with too many chromosomes who should be boiled down and converted to bio-diesel because they will never, ever contribute anything of value to humanity.

I mean at least we can all agree that this much should be uncontroversial.

Di Atribe:What the hell kind of radio stations does this author listen to?

That's what I can't figure out. His radio station of choice plays one Pink Floyd song? One Elton John song? One U2 song. That's extremely improbable. My guess is he either listens on some mobile device, thinks he is tuning in to a radio station, but is actually playing the same playlist over and over again. Or he listens in the car and thinks he is tuning in to a radio station, but there's actually a mixed CD he burned in 1998 stuck in the CD player.